A Peek into my Thoughts

Those who follow me on twitter will definitely have noticed my frustrated tweets from time to time about how dangerous it has become to be out there on the road in India. As the traffic on the road is growing, our…

Update: It’s been a while I’ve had this bicycle and that apprehension about the bottom bracket came true. The bike has been lying around unused because of massive issues with the bottom bracket. I got it repaired and the new…

Well 30th birthday is just another day, just a number, but it’s a great time to look at things that have become biggest priorities in my life. I’ve lived life as I want, have enjoyed it so far. Over the last few years…

As every time, with 12th standard results being declared today there are news of students who are depressed and pressurised thanks to high expectations by their parents. This takes me back to a story that started in my childhood days:…

Using sharethis but disappointed that it doesn’t have shortlink support? If you are someone who is comfortable placing some code in the correct place inside your theme then following will work for you. In comes url-shortener plugin to the rescue. First install…

I had a task of moving emails from an old server to a new server. Considering that stream of emails would be coming in on the live server, rsync didn’t look like a good option to sync the Maildirs. So,…

I have a Lava 720g 3G USB modem. The modem is supported by the usb_modeswitch distributed with Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 Beta. But, despite that it doesn’t connect out of the box. Here’s a very simple way in which I…

So, I wanted to host a small project made in web.py on my current server. I am running lighttpd as my HTTP server. The process to set it up is pretty straight forward as explained in the webpy documentation. I…